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Saying goodbye As a grassroots organization started on a kitchen table in one grieving mother’s home, our people are our most valuable champions and resources. These unflagging advocates make each milestone possible. So it is with great sadness that we say goodbye to two Mothers...

MADD National President Colleen Sheehey-Church invites you to Raise Against Time I took to Facebook Live to talk with Mothers Against Drunk Driving®’s supporters and fellow victims and survivors about why it’s important to me to Raise Against Time. Every 50 minutes, drunk driving kills...

A poet with a love of animals, Janakae was in her third year at Texas Tech University where she was studying veterinarian medicine when she wasn’t playing in the marching band. She had a goal of playing every instrument before graduation....

Recently, data released by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration revealed that drunk driving deaths increased for the second straight year in 2016, the first such consecutive increase since 1963. But the bad news isn’t over. Now, we have crash fatality information available and broken...

By LaKeitha Stephens, Jade’s mom Jade Gabrielle Stephens was a bubbly, outgoing, cheerful little girl who always had something witty to say. Her laugh was infectious, and she had a way of making everyone that she met feel specially loved. To know Jade was to...

Note the time. Watch it tick forward for the next 50 minutes. Then, know that in that time, drunk driving has claimed another innocent life — another mother or father, sister or brother, friend or coworker. It’s a race against time, and we are fighting back...

Drunk driving victim, long time MADD volunteer and WLKY Bell Award recipient Theresa Martinez shares her story of tragedy, pain and purpose.

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Daily, stories stream through our social feeds, make the local news and take front page in newspapers. Underage drinking claims 4,300 teen lives every year, more than all other drugs combined. Beyond loss of life there are numerous other negative long and short term effects...